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16 juin 2019

The Affordability Thing

First of all, no one defines it properly. When most people talk about affordability, they are using it as a synonym for price. But this is nonsense because affordability is a ratio: price divided by ability to pay. What is affordable for someone in Westmount or Tuxedo or North Van is quite different from what is affordable to someone from Verdun or the North End or the downtown East Side. More...

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16 juin 2019

A New (ish) Argument About Debt and Tuition

As I am starting to sketch out the bones of my next book, (semi-serious working title: How Tuition Fees Will Save the World), I am collecting arguments about the nature and desirability of private contributions to higher education. Most of the interesting stuff on that front right now is coming from the United States, which is of course sui generis as higher education systems go and so not necessarily applicable elsewhere, but its nonetheless vital to understand. More...

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16 juin 2019

Danger Ahead

Canadian universities and colleges like to congratulate themselves for their enormous success in increasing international student enrolments over the past few years. And why not? That success has brought Canadian institutions billions of dollars and allowed them to make up for roughly a decade of domestic tuition fee controls and stagnant core provincial funding. More...

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16 juin 2019

From the Shelves of HESA Towers (III)

As each year passes, it becomes harder to remember what exactly life was like before the internet. How did we communicate? How did we store and retrieve information? (A colleague recently commented on twitter that watching All the President’s Men today feels like an ad for Google because the first hour or so is just people looking through phone books). More...

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16 juin 2019

Microcredentials

One of the biggest challenges we have as a country is keeping adults skilled. Adults are far more expensive to train than young people because their labour has significant market value – it costs them money to take time off work, and their free time is limited due to things such as child or elder care. So, if you are going to entice them into some form of education, the program you’re pushing needs above all to be i) short and ii) have labour market value. More...

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16 juin 2019

Comparing Internationalization Policies

Last month the British Council and NAFSA published an interesting pair of studies, which I had the good fortune to be involved with. Three colleagues – Janet Ilieva, Vangelis Tsigirlis and Pat Killingley – wrote the main report (which, among other things, focussed on differences within Europe) and I contributed a companion report on the Americas. More...

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16 juin 2019

Trudeau vs. Harper

As we move inexorably towards a fall election (21 October, in case you’d forgotten), it is time to try to evaluate how well the present government has done on skills, science and higher education and how its record stacks up against its main competitor, the Conservative Party. More...

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16 juin 2019

What Works in Reducing Inequality

A couple of weeks ago, the World Bank published a very interesting little paper which received little attention. What Works to Reduce Inequalities in Higher Education? A Systematic Review of the (Quasi-) Experimental Literature of Outreach and Financial Aid, by Koen Geven and Estelle Herbaut, needs to be read by everyone with an interest in expanding access to higher education. More...

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16 juin 2019

Counting Foreign Students

An American colleague of mine sent me a note the other day. “So…Canada is heading to a million foreign students? That’s huge!”
To which my reaction was: “Wut? Dude, it’s about a quarter of that.”
At which point my colleague emailed me a recent story from ThePIE, a nifty little London-based outlet which covers international education. More...

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16 juin 2019

Hi From NAFSA

I love the annual conference of the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA), which is being held this week in Washington DC. NAFSA, for uninitiated, is both a conference with lots of interesting presentations on international education (I was doing one on International Education Policies in the Americas. More...

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